*pout* Okay NOT going home for Christmas...

*BIG hugs* I'm so sorry Jean. I can handle a few inches of snow, but 15-20 is just too much. Hmmm...how many cans of deicer would it take to melt 20 inches of snow? :-) Don't feel bad about taking 30 minutes to go 6 miles. It took DH over 1 1/2 hours to get home, and it's only a 5 mile drive. Go curl up with your hubby and stay warm. We can't have our favorite pro photographer freeze! :-)

I'm so sorry. Can you perhaps just postpone your trip and go in a few days?

I don't know how things will go for us. They really aren't set up here for the snow they've gotten and it looks like it will be under snow or is that over snow for half of our 500 mile trip. We have to go through Memphis and then start south. So we're atually driving northeast first. We may have to postpone for a day or two.

M-C

You know my dad said "just come for new years then" so I think I might... You know...that sounds so weird.. pro photographer...

*giggle*

Ever search for years to figure out "what" you were... only to have it drop in your lap? LOL...

ooops responded to the wrong person.. yeah I think I will go next weekend... If the weather cooperates.. LOLOL its just so bad here... we have 14 inches out there and a layer of ice on that...

Oh Wow!:>(

Hope you all manage to get home at some point guys.

I talked to my dad we are going to try next weekend.. it will be a shorter visit, but a visit nonetheless... :D

The dogs LOVE the snow tho.. LOLOL

It's always amusing to see how everyone panics with the first sign of snow here! I was at work and we put chains oon the firetrucks. Took us 10 minutes to get to a house fire last night.....we were second alarm.

Took me only 30 minutes to get home this morning....glad I had chains! Put 'em on and started out, sloow...didn't have any problems.

For those of you that are traveling in this winter storm, be careful and be smart about your driving.

We really panic about snow around here. No one knows how to drive in it. If they go up to the foot hills where it occasionally snows its pure chaos. Fortunately, my parents live in a lower part of the foot hills so snow seldom arrives there. BUT if it does come in the town above them I can drive in the back way and miss the snow all together. Not something the kids appreciate, but I didn't either when I was little. I lived in a lot of snow states when I was a kid. I remember my dad purposely spinning the car on the snowy icy roads. It was scary and fun at the same time.

Hope it clears up enough for you to get a visit with family.

We got 22+ inches here with some drifts as deep as 3 feet. The most snow I've seen since 1978. I guess I'm lucky my family all live close by. Both of my older DD's are 22 miles away, my DS is 45 miles south and my Mom is three blocks away. So much for never leaving home...... I hope everything works out for your trip....just give it a few days to settle down and travel will be back to normal. I'm sure your parents will treasure the time you do get with them even if it is not as long. I'd rather hold off Christmas for a few days till the weather breaks rather than pace the floor and worry about any of my kids and grandkids on the road. Curl up and keep warm....... Sandy in Southern Indiana

LOL I think that every one gets excited here ,too. We ended up with 8 to

10 inches with a lot of ice and sleet tossed in there,too.Parts of Indiana got 22 and 30 inches. (Just across the river from us) It is beautiful and the sky is blue today with bright sunshine. However we have temps in the single digits and it will probably stay white here until next week. The roads are very bad right now...just the main arteries and the interstates are clear. They are encouraging only key people be out and about. Lots of fender-benders and sliding off the roads, But it is so neat to see how everyone just jumps out of their cars and pushes people out of ditches and stuff. Merry Christmas everybody!!!!

Hugs, Sabrina in Kentucky

a good friend is a life long treasure

Lynne, Thanks for the memory. My dad, too, used to spin the car around on the ice. My mother would act scared to death and my sister and I would roar with laughter and beg him to do it again. Of course, my uncle and dad used to pull us behind the car on our sleds with the warning to keep our feet up so we could stop ourselves with the bumper and not slide under the car. Probably all of that would be a cause for a call to social services today about child endangerment. Thank you for bringing those fun times back in my mind. Merry Christmas.

Sorry you won't be able to travel for Christmas. Have a Merry Christmas any way.

Teresa in MD

I saw some of that storm on the news here in Australia. I guess its what you call a really white Christmas, a somewhat strange event to us Down Under. The weather people predict a hot day tomorrow (Christmas Day), might be nice to go to the beach.

Merry Christmas everyone, and I hope your storm will allow you to visit your loved ones safely.

Susan Australia

pppppbttttt!!!!! (thats giving you a raspberry!) (sticking out your tounge...)

I'm sitting here staring at snow... well the good thing is everyone is stuck now so we are all getting together and doing a dinner together tomorrow (the neighbors).... we are the only ones that can get out (subaru 4x4) and we are running people all over today..LOL... oh well... later!

Merry Chrustmas, Susan!! The beach ?....for Christmas? Oh my goodness! We have 10 inches of snow with an ice coating! LOL The temp is in the single digits. HO HO HO!!

Hugs, Sabrina in Kentucky

a good friend is a life long treasure

Well, I did have to put a sweat shirt on yesterday here in California. Brrrrrr it's getting pretty cold. :P